THOSE U2 BOYS ARE REALLY GONNA MAKE IT SOMEDAY

If you watched the Oscars last week, you probably noticed many blunt and some tacit messages regarding the war in Iraq, the most notable of which was, of course, Michael Moore's acceptance speech (more on that soon). But there was another anti-war message that I didn't notice until I just read about it, and it came during U2's performance of their nominated song "The Hands That Built America". Bono made a bit of a lyric change before the show:

In a veiled protest against the war, which went totally unreported, Bono, lead singer of U2, sang “The Hands that Built America” from Gangs of New York, changing two lines of the song:

It's early fall, there is a cloud on the New York skyline,
Innocents across a yellow line.

Became,

Late in the spring, yellow cloud on a desert skyline,
Some father’s son, is it his or is it mine.

You go!

Nevertheless, I still have to go on record and say that "...America" was not an oscar-worthy song and didn't fit the movie for which it was written. Besides wasn't it worth it to hear that orchestra awkwardly blast "Lose Yourself"?